Friction in the Hugo composition process — Part 1

Sat, 22 Apr 2023 00:11:00 -0800

I would write more, I say, if it was easier to start, write and publish a blog entry.

I have a Bash script that allows me to easily write and publish microblog-style entries. Maybe I should come up with something similar for Hugo. It’s been on my to-do list.

I can write tweets quickly. But a Hugo blog entry is a different thing.

There’s a bunch of metadata at the top of the post. You need a title, time and date, author name and Twitter handle field. I guess I can forget about that last one in the Elon era. And then there are tags. And I can choose, post by post, whether to show the full post in the index, or not. There’s an optional description that makes the blog listing pages look much better. You have to come up with a file name.

Using rsync to update a Hugo blog

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 15:11:24 -0700

The one disadvantage of a static-site generator like Hugo is that after you create an entry and build your blog locally, you then have to figure out how to update your site on the server. And Hugo seems to change a whole lot of files with every run of the command hugo, even if you are only creating a single entry.

There’s a heavy amount of encouragement to use GitHub to manage the blog and some kind of build utility to transfer the files to the web server.

Scripting on passthejoe

Friction in the Hugo composition process — Part 1

Using rsync to update a Hugo blog